In this black and white photograph, a smiling African American man wearing a suit and tie sits, holding the comics section of a newspaper between his knees. There is a long diagonal crease that moves into the image from the upper left corner, and there is intermittent pink-red spotting on the left half of the image.

Paul Robeson

Unknown photographer, United States

About 1930

Titles Paul Robeson (Descriptive)
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions sheet: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm) image: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (33.7 × 26.7 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Joel Rosenkranz and Janis Conner, AFI.169.2017
Work Type photograph
Classification Photographs